new player start guide ( Vol 2 )

congratulations on lvl 21, you are now an epic character, and now have some new options and harder tasks ahead of you.

we are going to start in the temple within The City With A Name ( TCWAN )
in al alcove inside the temple is the celestial gatekeeper. you are now allowed to have access to this area, plz talk to the gatekeeper and go inside.
inside here are 2 NPC, the one NPC is designated for long time players and I am sure you will eventually get to know him in time, but you will first need lvl 40, and massed up plenty of extra XP before you even think about him.
The other NPC in this area is the Celestial Smith. this guy has several pieces of upper end gear he would like to construct and sell to you, take some time to look it over.
take note of the items you would like, and also take note of the materials the smith is asking for to create it.. save said components for later when you can complete the item
special notes. celestial cloak, celestial helm, celestial armors. for those Arcane users, the Celestial arcane staff ( there is a Celestial arcane dagger for you wee little guys out there, to make that requires this staff first. )
dont worry about slamming all this together right away, it is designed for lvl 40 + and will take you alot of work to put together, but at least you now have a shopping list.

save your first 1 million gold to buy a wish that can be purchased from Tanada inside Ganthol Labyrinth B. use this wish to wish from a DM 5 Mystic waters, we will be using these to trade for our first level upgradeable armor which leads to the celestial eventually.
alternative, trade this wish or buy the 10 mystic waters from active players for 1 million gold, some players have (HC) characters that can go get them.

with mystic waters in hand we head back to Ganthol B, take the middle southern door, hang a right, and folow wall to enter into the west door here.  take your first right, and go to the big tree . there is a guardian named Treefriend that we are going to talk to.
offer these waters free to treefriend ( don't sell them to her) do this 5 X and she will offer to give you an armor style of your choice. robe( leaf), umm forgot the rest, but think you get the idea, heavier duty the tree style, coresponds to armor type up to plate.
head back to temple.

go to the Silver Mage now, you should know this guy quite well by now, and with your new tree armor equipped talk to him, he will have a new conversation on how to convert this into an Underworld Version. just take note it is the next step to Celestial, and you are still a long ways from accomplishing this task.

side note: if you have not completed the Ambrose side quest yet, I would recommend you do this.

at this point you will want ( not needed but very painful without it ) a handy trinket called the Keeper stone, this is almost impossible to get yourself..ALMOST. I recomend you ask someone to help you get this, they know where and how.
this item is used will give you 100% immunity to implosions, and your next major area has its fair share of these. only need to use this item 1 time / server reset.

with keeper stone in hand, you are now ready to trudge foreward. our next major area is the plane of elderkin, you found the long way to enter this place doing your final dark secret, but there is also a portal in the portal plane to this area. if the portal has not been unlocked, this opens up a good opportunity for you..

UNLOCKING THE CLOSED PORTALS IN THE PORTAL PLANE

if the portals are not active ( right after a reset) head to Lord Rockmore's Parlor on the NE wall of TCWAN.. use this path to enter into Beryl Groto
inside Beryl groto is a coffin that has 2 books in it, loot both, and head to the beginning of Beryl, and place the Beryl book into the Beryl lectern.  Beryl portal is now open, and you just made a random roll to receive a wish for free. now head to Marvel ( 12th Secret )
and enter Elderkin plane, and find Lectern inside here and do the same, another roll for a free wish.

now to start the hunt for the Elderkin keys. at the start you are kinda squishy yet, so start on the main area, and hunt down the young elderkin dragons, and collect their claws, take these claws into the Dragon Inn in crossblades, and you can trade these claws to the big dragon in there for access to 3 different areas.. first area ( 5 claws) choice of necklace ( can only hold 1 of these at time, but it can be exchanged by getting 5 more claws.. second area ( 10 claws ) are rings, I recommend the ring of fresh air for now being that we are hunting dragons. the third area ( 15 claws ) is shields and weapons, some classes or builds may want one of these, I leave it as a surprise of whats in there.
last but not least 20 Claws!  You can ask the dragon about what to do with all these elderkin items and he will sell you a different looking bag of holding for 20 claws.

you may have noticed portals within The Elderkin Plane. these portals lead to the adult version of the young dragons you have been hunting, now the real job begins.

NOTE: what is going to be explained next acts like keys that allow you access into other areas, so you will want to do this, but warning, this will take time, good thing you are making money and XP doing it.

each adult dragon inside his particular portal will drop an item or metal piece, if it is an item, you are done with this dragon, save that item, eg black cap, rod 7 parts ( any of the 7 different types ), azure cloak, a pair of gloves. these are key pieces and you will hold onto them FOREVER. you only need to do these particular dragons 1 time.
if the adult dragon drops a metal piece, you need to collect 9 of each type of piece except copper, you only need 3 of these. you take these pieces back into the loadstone mine forge and combine like pieces until you have created an item.
silver ring
bronze boots
copper armor
brass dagger

spoiler: Mar'Vells scholar house in TCWAN can shortcut you to the Forge. another hint forge ALWAYS works in sets of 3's..I let you work that out.

with all these pieces you now have access to nearly everywhere on 12 DS.

one more area to note for great information is the player written books , almost anything you want to know about has a book written about it, these can be found in the Library in TCWAN, or forums under books section 12darksecrets.forumotion.com

happy exploring there is so much more to discover.


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